Friday, January 16, 2015

Screenshot of working sequences in Adobe Premiere CC for Butterfly Town, USA

Sometimes it takes 5 endings to find the right one. I'm still not sure it's the right ending, but it's closer. This is why there are deadlines. Ten endings later we'd be tearing our hair out. Deadlines are actually a blessing to the creative process.

Her face fell "That's not drawing, you traced that! You can't call that drawing."

I was so deflated I stopped teaching my hand-brain how to draw.

Of course, that's a story with a happy ending in my case. But it's not for everyone.

In reading the article, I'm starting to realize what has really been driving me to spend all of my free time, all vacation time, all podcast and movie time (EGADS - I haven't even listened to Serial yet!!) LOL the last three years or so on a documentary on the topic of creativity. It's not just a form of filmmaking madness, it's because I really wish that children today would grow up connected to their creative pulse—cooking, mechanics, engineering, science, dancing, whatever!! And I want to send these children a love letter. It's also a love letter to adults who are open to it.